Ordinarily Sacred

by Lynda Sexson

Overview

Lynda Sexson offers a theology of everyday experience in this enchanting book that shows how the religious traditions of the world lie slightly concealed in the details and commonplaces of ordinary life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813914169
Publisher:	University of Virginia Press
Publication date:	09/29/1992
Series:	Studies in Religion and Culture
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	134
Sales rank:	665,772
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Lynda Sexson is Associate Professor of Humanities at Montana State University. She is author of Margaret of the Imperfect: Stories.

What People are Saying About This

"Ordinarily Sacred is an extraordinarily original book whose importance has yet to be fully recognized." -- Frederick Turner, University of Texas at Dallas

Editorial Reviews

Ordinarily Sacred is an extraordinarily original book whose importance has yet to be fully recognized.

Frederick Turner

Lynda Sexson offers a theology of everyday experience in this enchanting book that shows how religious traditions of the world lie slightly concealed in the details and commonplaces of ordinary life.

Thomas Moore

Lynda Sexson, in this beautifully written book, brings us back to the first metaphysics of Western culture and to the understanding that the ground she is treading on is ours, our common way of making experience..which holds universally across cultures, literal, oral, scientific, popular.

Journal of Social and Biological Structures - Antonio T. de Nicolas

"Lynda Sexson offers a theology of everyday experience in this enchanting book that shows how religious traditions of the world lie slightly concealed in the details and commonplaces of ordinary life. "—Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul

"Ordinarily Sacred is an extraordinarily original book whose importance has yet to be fully recognized. "—Frederick Turner, University of Texas at Dallas

"Lynda Sexson, in this beautifully written book, brings us back to the first metaphysics of Western culture and to the understanding that the ground she is treading on is ours, our common way of making experience..which holds universally across cultures, literal, oral, scientific, popular. "—Antonio T. de Nicolas, author of Journal of Social and Biological Structures

From the Publisher

Lynda Sexson, in this beautifully written book, brings us back to the first metaphysics of Western culture and to the understanding that the ground she is treading on is ours, our common way of making experience..which holds universally across cultures, literal, oral, scientific, popular.

— Antonio T. de Nicolas

Journal of Social and Biological Structures

A reprint, without change, of the Crossroad edition published in 1982. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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